GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 19, 2020

homes and commercial buildings consume roughly two-fifths of the country’s overall energy, three-fourths of all electricity, and account for most of the peak electricity demand that drives generation and power grid infrastructure costs. Shifting heating from fossil fuels to electricity can cut direct emissions.

Energy Monitor 130

Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring 130

Better Ventures

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Our power grids will buckle and we don’t yet have the wherewithal to manage so many distributed energy resources coming on line at once. Solar and wind power won’t help Nike decarbonize its production if it can’t manage the carbon footprint of its many supply chain layers, but software will.

Cooling 52

Cooling Electricity HVAC Fossil fuels 52

Business Green

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Major investment is urgently needed to roll out up to 24GW of long-duration energy storage over the next 15 years to help smooth operation of the grid as it contends with a rapid influx of intermittent wind power capacity, Aurora Energy Research has warned. The flow batteries are capable of storing up to 0.8

Energy 36

Energy Energy Batteries Lithium 36

Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The authors note how quickly improvements in low-carbon technologies have proceeded relative to projections by international bodies like the International Energy Agency (IEA) or by integrated assessment models (IAMs). Bioenergy and carbon capture and sequestration were explicitly constrained. degrees Celsius or well below 2°C.

Energy 52

Energy Energy Fossil fuels Policy 52

DeSmogBlog

JULY 20, 2023

The homeowner is confused by the mixed messages from government, industry and the sector around which low-carbon heating solution is best,” says the director of the Birmingham Energy Institute. The future of hydrogen in heating homes in the UK is less assured.

Home Energy Monitoring 75

Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor 75

Business Green

MAY 18, 2021

The only room for fossil fuels in 2050 may be in the production of hard to abate heavy industrial manufacturing, plastics production - although as a separate report today makes clear , the planet ideally needs that mostly bringing to an end too - and in some power facilities fitted with carbon capture capability, the IEA contends.

Fossil fuels 90

Fossil fuels Natural gas Demand Government 90

GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

So says a new report from Deloitte highlighting the known, yet often underappreciated, challenges faced by utilities across the country promising to zero out their carbon impact by midcentury. That’s not news to those who’ve been closely tracking plans to reach net-zero carbon from major U.S.

Solar Energy Monitor 130

Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 130

Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 17, 2022

In the summer of 1988, scientist James Hansen testified to Congress that carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels was dangerously warming the planet. Then, beginning around 2009, first wind turbines and then solar photovoltaic panels decreased enough in cost to become competitive in electricity markets. electricity.

Solar Energy Monitor 117

Solar Energy Monitor Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 117

Renewable Energy World

MARCH 12, 2021

million workers in everything from manufacturing all-electric vehicles and modernizing the power grid to building solar farms and maintaining wind turbines. Those who work in the industry feel the excitement, with new companies, products, services and opportunities. Currently, the U.S. employs nearly 3.4

Energy 94

Energy Energy Climate change Construction 94

Business Green

JUNE 29, 2022

Covering business emissions, agriculture policy, meat and dairy consumption, electric vehicle sales, heat pumps, insulation and green workforce requirements, here BusinessGreen rounds up the enlightening charts from the CCC's latest annual net zero progress report.

Fossil fuels 36

Fossil fuels Climate change Policy Government 36

AutoGrid

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Our electricity system has been described as the world’s largest continuously operating machine. Yet without innovation now required by the climate crisis, our traditional power grids will fail us. But CCAs can decide where the power comes from through votes by county and city governments. Let’s find out.

Power grid 52

Power grid Demand Pollution Climate change 52

GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 21, 2020

What’s more, the bill “provides the industry a full extra year to negotiate longer-term tax credits or tie renewables directly with future carbon policies with the friendly Biden administration,” Manghani noted. ” Wind tax credit impacts. Solar power will get $1.5

Packaging 130

Packaging Nuclear Power Energy Energy 130

Grist

DECEMBER 8, 2021

This story is part of the series Getting to Zero: Decarbonizing Cascadia , which explores the path to low-carbon energy for British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon. Climate scientists say humanity must halve carbon emissions by the end of this decade to prevent global warming from causing far more devastating climate swings.

Fossil fuels 81

Fossil fuels Natural gas Policy Law 81

GreenTechMedia

MARCH 2, 2020

Senate will consider a bipartisan energy package this week that could be this year’s best legislative hope to increase federal funding for a number of energy technologies, from solar, wind and batteries, to more efficient fossil fuel-fired power and carbon capture. trillion spending bill passed by Congress in December.

Building Energy Monitoring 130

Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring 130

GreenTechMedia

MARCH 11, 2020

The bill has come under fire from clean energy groups for its lack of targets or mandates for reducing carbon emissions, as well as provisions to direct billions of dollars to fossil fuel research. But it does include boosts in funding for key clean energy technologies, grid modernization and cybersecurity, and grid-scale energy storage.

Solar Energy Monitor 130

Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 130

Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2020

The net zero emissions deadlines are already coming into view for a number of industries: from 2030, new buildings would need to achieve net zero carbon emissions, with new cars following in 2035 and power producers in 2040. This incorporates roads and bridges, but also a green power grid and improved water infrastructure.

Climate change 64

Climate change Investment Policy Electric vehicle 64

GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

House Republicans proposed a bill this year that would focus on planting trees to sequester atmospheric carbon, but they have not followed up with promised additional bills focused on clean energy and conservation. Murkowski insisted the GOP is not opposed to what she termed "commonsense climate policies."

Policy 130

Policy Energy Energy Climate change 130